Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and 2008 vice-presidential nominee who became a Tea Party sensation and a favorite of grass-roots conservatives, will endorse Donald J. Trump in Iowa on Tuesday, officials with his campaign confirmed. The endorsement provides Mr. Trump with a potentially significant boost just 13 days before the state’s caucuses.

“I’m proud to endorse Donald J. Trump for president,” Ms. Palin said in a statement provided by his campaign.

I can't help but suspect the abuse Sarah Palin experienced at the hands of the Republican establishment might have had just a little something to do with her decision to throw her support to Trump. But regardless, this is a big deal, as it is an indication how women who are concerned about immigration and vibrancy are going to vote.

But are we sure the establishment is monolithic in its abhorrence of Trump? Seems that Cruz also has significant problems with the establishment (and in particular, his Senate colleagues), and Palin might actually be doing some parts of the establishment a favor here.

Horseshit. They don't like him, but they own him. He's married and in debt to Goldman Sachs. He's a total non-starter.

Maybe so, and obviously, any connection to Vampire Squid is disconcerting. On the other hand, Cruz's rhetoric has boxed him in somewhat (particularly on future bailouts), his wife is on leave from GS, and the total amount of debt is somewhere between $50,000 and $100,000.

Goldman got themselves a bargain if that's the going price for a sitting Senator and serious Presidential contender.

As someone that has a lot of windshield time during the day, it's amazing how the GOPe & AMcuckradio are hard-selling Cruz. Trump must really be a legitimate threat to them since the idea of the GOP going all in on a Goldman Sachs Canadian faggot with a jew nose is about as desperate as the Mormon cuck they ran in 2012. Don't much care for Palin, but she likely deliver some deep shivs to the GOPe. Paybacks a bitch.

I've been watching elections since 1968. First voted in 1972 (last voted '92). I've never seen an election quite like this one. Never had a candidate running quite like Trump. Not even Reagan was like Trump, and we're not in Jimmy Carter's malaise either. It's worse.

What's interesting me more than Trump and the establishment Rs is Hillary. The level of her incompetence is astounding and the odds of her being actually indicted are real. Sanders is a socialist joke.

People are talking of a Republican brokered convention. I'm actually contemplating watching Biden get drafted.

Didn't she say that she could see Biden's ,fired for cocaine snorting, son being given control of the Ukraine's petrol from her house? If Biden gets drafted I might be tempted to show up at one of his rallies with a rainbow feather boa and a sign that says "Biden's good son died after seeing pics of me with his coke whore brother"

Cruz also has significant problems with the establishment

Cruz's GoldManSacks wife a player in making a north American EU. Building a North American Community Task Forcehttp://www.cfr.org/canada/building-north-american-community/p8102

@19. 348:Is Cruz even still in this thing?Oh yes, a solid #2.And as someone else noted, talk radio is starting to push Cruz as the anti-Trump because he, Rubio and Carson (who's stock is dropping) are the only ones still polling in double digits.

A friend here in the ultra liberal San Francisco area ponders at length on Facebook about how he is questioning how tough Hitlery may be on the big corporate banks, and how he is becoming more attracted to Bernie.

Since I spend about 15 minutes every 2 weeks on facebook these days, mostly to manage some social event publicity items, I no longer bother to troll these types of things.

But for those of you who live in more sane areas of Amerika, the denial of reality is very, very strong with SJW liberals.

This friend only survived my purge of SJWs because he didn't turn his profile picture rainbow last year to celebrate the Supreme Court victory.

I unfriended over 20 people. I don't miss seeing their posts or hearing their opinions, at all.

@24If you take anything said by Joe McGinniss at face value, you're a fool. He has such a hate-on for Palin that he has thoroughly discredited himself. His MO is to start rumors (like the one you cite) amongst the "any lie about Palin is fine as long as it's scandalous" crowd in Alaska, and then report the rumor as truth. And then the mainstream media reports the the report without endorsing it, and suddenly Everyone Knows that Sara Palin is a crack whore.

Honest to God, did you turn your brain off this morning, or does it go into auto-shutdown when Palin is mentioned?

The recent exposure of the Russert "New York values" interview certainly seems to have Trump and his most emotionally invested supporters scrambling. I don't know that a Palin endorsement is an effective antidote for that poison, especially when it has that negotiated, art-of-the-deal feel.

I wonder how big of deal this is. I still question Trump's conservatism. Not much there except for immigration. His attack on Cruz doesn't seem so smart, more desperate. If Cruz owes Goldman Sachs, we can say Trump owes New York for his livelihood is all about New York.

Apparently Kudlow was saying on CNBC that the Democrats will draft Biden. He picked Trump to win the Republican nomination and said Trump would beat Berny in a 49 state landslide. Take with a saltlick I saw the quotes on another message board and have no first hand of this and will have to see if I can find YouTube of it later, but that tells you what the conventional wisdom is going too. I expect that the dems wouldn't mind losing to Jeb! but feel that have to beat a Trump.

"The shocking moment two journalists are attacked by migrants armed with pepper spray and a knife in the Calais Jungle

Dutch filmmaker Maaike Engels was making documentary in Calais Jungle She was filming when her colleague Teun Voeten was attacked by migrants Three young men armed with knife and pepper spray tried to steal camera Pair saved when other migrants came to their rescue and ran attackers off"

Vox, I'd highly recommend you read today's Mark Steyn column/ blog. A lot of it you could have written yourself. You and he might never be able to sit at the same table but your positions on a wide range of issues are in perfect agreement.

Lest We Forget was Rudyard Kipling accurately predicting the fall of the British Empire. From the Titanic to the Great War, I don't think anyone could have foreseen how fast the autumn leaf would fall.

Enoch Powell was destroyed in much the same way Sarah Palin was, in much the same way Australia's Pauline Hanson was. Rudyard Kipling to Pauline Hansen represent a big margin of difference in rungs on an intellectual ladder, but their common ground is wanting to preserve a bloody history in preference to none at all.

Remembering the God of our Fathers, and good and bad and ugly history is better than being given no option on it at all. Having it expunged from the record by writers of some other creed.

Well, gee, Christian first, do you have a saint in mind to run, a holiest of holies?

Can you tell any of us here, including the scoffing atheists, who was the first, even the most recent saint to hold the presidency. Since there was nobody who was a saint under your demands, shouldn't we just hand the country back to Saint Queen Elizabeth?

Watching this endorsement from Palin, I had forgotten how annoying that accent is especially with the pitch of her voice.

Is this the level of disqualifying you all are sinking to: your opinion of her is based on misquotes, a comedienne's impersonation routine, and now her accent; as though you have the golden throat of the gods.

Let's face it: there is not a candidate on the Republican side who you won't disqualify for the most petty of reasons.

The recent exposure of the Russert "New York values" interview certainly seems to have Trump and his most emotionally invested supporters

Next you are going to tell us that the lead in Flint's water due to the almost all black city council decision to use contaminated water from the Flint river instead of buying clean water from the Detroit water outfit is something republicans should virtue signal over, like when the 2 levies fixed by minority contractors broke in Katrina. Oh Wait HilLIARy is doing that now.

OT: http://twitchy.com/2016/01/18/black-queer-liberation-collective-takes-credit-for-blocking-bay-bridge/"And yes, they did compare their action to the Selma march and presented a list of demands, the first of which is “the immediate divestment of city funds for policing and investment in sustainable"

Do those idiots know what would happen if the cops did less policing? For those of us that don’t have sex with drunk underage boys down by the railroad tracks, cops are our friends.

"And if you think Trump is "desperate" when he's kicking ass in the polls, well, no one is that stupid. You're just dishonest."

He is definitely fighting to win Iowa. That's the first skirmish. Barely even with Cruz in the polls (1 point ahead) so we know that's the way he will try hard to put him away. He is saying and doing whatever he can. Trump is ahead in the polls nationally, but that means little when the polls are showing Sanders is beating Trump on a head to head.

So when has this writer Matt Walsh spent time with Trump and his family to call him a "Godless man"?

So much bias with some of these writers that it's just getting ridiculous. You will be surprised to know the same Matt Walsh is hammering Sarah Palin today too. But he loved Palin when she was nice to Cruz.

This writer is so transparent in his efforts that he's willing to label a man "Godless" without one shred of proof. Maybe he should try reading The Bible again. Religious posers really suck.

Luke 6:37 Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned.

Matthew 7:1 Do not judge so that you will not be judged. For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you.

@51 - Regarding Steyn, I think there is no question he is with us, while trying to maintain viable with his own business as a writer. He's paid a pretty high price for his views, when you consider that 10 years ago his columns were in the Daily Telegraph, the Spectator (the one that matters), National Review, National Post, etc.

He mentioned as an aside the other day that (and I paraphrase, but it was on his website last week) "once you realize the demographic issue, it haunts you, even to the point of having nightmares about it, because it's everything."

Her views:Keep taxes down and govt regulation downPro-Gun rightsEnforcement of the immigration lawsDoesn't want the US to fight in conflicts in the Middle East. She put it well: "Let Allah Sort it Out."

The question I have is, will Palin use her perky girly voice again or will she sound like a serious woman this time. The VP candidate Palin and the post election Palin sound like 2 different women. (Never let campaign insiders tell you how to look and talk)

some wrinkly commie who lets himself be shut down by two dindu-nuffin bitches during his own speech.

True 'nuff. But you wouldn't even know a candidates name if he/she/it weren't acceptable or workable for or already sponsored by the Bankstas - to include da Donald.Some say that truth revealed will destroy America. If not destroyed, then your Children lose.

@70Steyn enjoys a warm relationship with Fox News and much of the conservative commentariat, so he doesn't like to breathe fire, but you are absolutely right on him getting the primacy of demographics and immigration.

He's one of the very few guys with access to mainstream conservatism that instinctively sided with Trump when the Trump/Cruz war inevitably broke out.

Just saw that SCOTUS is going to hear a challenge to Obama's use of executive action in shielding immigrants. What's interesting is, SCOTUS expanded the question, asking also to be briefed as to whether Obama failed in upholding the law(s) as to immigration.

I hear you, Salt. Heard Hilary dwscribed as this cycle's Rmoney in that she has all the bona fides, establishment cred, and big money, but comes off as utterly fake and jivey. The thought occurred to me thst, like Romney, she also can't stop stepping on her own dick.

Demanding candidates be "just so" Christians or they are disqualified is village idiocy, not serious argument. Again, I ask you: can you name one president who was a saint meeting all biblical requirements for Christian holiness as you demand? If not, does that mean the the United States (revolution and Constitution) was really a Satanic imposition on the good subject of King George III?

The great thing about Trump vs. Cruz is it's exposes the difference between ideology and loyalty.

I would have been with Matt Walsh and Ben Shapiro and the rest of these young conservatives gravitating for Cruz if it wasn't for the realization (aided by Vox reading of course) that I like America as it was more than America as it supposedly should be.

Realizing that this is not a battle of ideas but a battle of people makes Trump the only choice, even if he's not a great one. Because the one thing I do buy about Trump is that he's fantastically loyal to Americans.

That's why the New York values tiff was so illuminating. Conservative defenders of Cruz leapt at the chance to define New York values as liberal values and to impose their ideological view above territorial loyalty.

That's why the New York values tiff was so illuminating. Conservative defenders of Cruz leapt at the chance to define New York values as liberal values and to impose their ideological view above territorial loyalty.

That was the most effective attack against trump so far. Note how he pulled a 9/11 and demanded an apology.

The entire Trump vs. Cruz debate on that site has gone crazy. The Cruz people attacking Trump and the Trump folks attacking Cruz. Very hot and insulting.

Fact is for this working chap the election comes down to Four issues:

Immigration: trump is the one who stated he would eject all illegals, Cruz only followed after he saw it was popular. if you look at Cruz's web site he says nothing about it, I doubt he is serious. Hopefully trump is.

Fair trade: Again Trump has hit the nail on the head. China is trying to buy up and move all the high tech electronic industry to China, paying for it with the proceeds from selling us plastic junk. Once lost we will not be able to resurrect such industry. the future of our well being depends on having some innovative industry here.

Also the only trade partner that is really out of balance with us is China. Fix the 500 billion trade deficit and move a few million value added jobs back to the US of A, will help the working class more than any give away program.

Cruz is a free trader, in fact his wife is part of the banker association that wants to eliminate any ability of folks in the US of A to leverage their job skills for pay, preferring a work where all salaries are fixed by the lowest global rate. No thanks...

Gun Control: Cruz and Trump are virtually identical with one difference: Trump wants to extend the equal protection clause to firearm carry permits. If he succeeds that might well be the lever by which the states that have outlawed certain self loading arms and magazines have those bans shoved down their throats. After all if the equal protection clause is extended to guns like it was with gay marriage, well a lot of New Yorkers will soon be able to buy AR-15 rifles like the folks in PA. On Guns Trump is playing offense and Cruz is defense.

Supreme Court Justices: Here Cruz seems superior, if I believe the folks that say he is the true strict constructionist. Hopefully he would succeed where Nixon, Regan, Bush 1 and Bush II failed. Trump, one has no indication who he would appoint and it might be a disaster, I see no guidance on his web site or in any of his prognostications. It is kind of worrisome.

That said Trump has demonstrated he fights. I would kind of like to see a conflict between Trump and the supreme court, where they hand down a bad decision and he fights it, AKA Andrew Jackson like, rather than the typical well-bred republican response to give up.

As an example: proposition 187 was passed by Ca in 1994 and would have slowed down or stopped the immigration crisis by denying welfare limits, education and pretty much every other advantage the Mexicans could achieve by being in CA illegally. The supreme court ruled it unconstitutional, and they will likely do so if Trump or any president attempts to ship out illegals. Trump is the only one who might say: :the court has ruled now let them enforce it". Cruz will not.

Trump is a big risk, his real intnetions a total unknown. But when you are rapidly retreating and losing the battle you sometimes must stake your chances on a unpredictable attack, not just play defense that ensures a loss 8 years down the road. Trump is such a chance, a long shot for sure, but the best option we have.

Looks like the Trump loyalists missed the point of Walsh's piece. Yes, Trump is an businessman who has made billions. But can any of you tell us, what his moral standards are? Does he base his personal ethic on a Biblical standard, a personal standard, or is he like so many nihilists who have not moral anchor and do "what ever seems right in his own eyes"?

If Trump's personal morality is not based on a Judeo-Christian ethic, what is is based upon?

"But can any of you tell us, what his moral standards are? Does he base his personal ethic on a Biblical standard, a personal standard, or is he like so many nihilists who have not moral anchor and do "what ever seems right in his own eyes"?"

His employees seem to all love him.

Once he told his limo driver to stop and got out to confront a man beating another man with a bat, and didn't seek to gain any publicity from it afterwards.

He seems to be known by those who know him as a kind, likable person.

The bigger question is, what can you point to that shows that he's a Secret Hitler or whatever you clearly believe?

You are still looking at this from a purely ideological lens. Trump looks bad to you (I assume) because you ascribe NY values an ideological angle (social liberalism) like Cruz and Trump failed to repudiate those ideas.

But I disagree strongly that he resorted to political correctness. Identity politics is not the exclusive realm of PC. Trump was playing a territorial card: he identified with the New York resident not New York politics. He took the assault personally on behalf of his people - as a rich white dude. He transformed a political attack into a personal attack because that's how he views the world.

You've got to check out Frum's latest for the Atlantic.

Conservatives have been going pure ideology as a way to combat charges of racism for so long that they've lost hold of earthy, non-ideological appeals to American identity.

Not a racially explicit appeal either. Trump is working along class and geographic lines here - it's whites and blacks and people who have been here for generations vs. the invaders. Ideology matters far less than hometown to him.

That's why Cruz's direct Cuban/Canadian roots are such a big deal to him.

It's strange that he's being accused of political opportunism and cynicism when he's just doubling down on the core elements of his worldview.

"Because the one thing I do buy about Trump is that he's fantastically loyal to Americans."

And this is the key as I've stated before here.

Trump is in the business of American's liking him. It's in his business ventures. It's who he is. This is why he has such a good pulse on the country and is willing to say what the majority of the people think. Politics and politicians be dammed. Trump has no fear of rocking their boat.

but that means little when the polls are showing Sanders is beating Trump on a head to head.

Trump will just have all his ads being the video of Cucked Bernie being knocked back by 2 feral sows at what Bernie supporters said was a 10,000 person crowd that no one did anything to stop. Hell I might go to a sanders rally with my rainbow feather boa that has paracord strands in it,(maybe loop it around him to drag him off) bitch slap him off the podium & tell the crowd we need multiple brands of deodorant so I can tell my boyfriends apart in the dark.

@74, the First Christian to post here, I find this really funny. Us butt hurtians only want to once visit your youtube of you walking on water. That's all.Our fig leaves are all fallen. Us butt naked are waiting on you water walkers to usher in the new triumphant era. Come on now. My mouse is ready to click on your link.If not walking on water then merely a single withered hand made straight. Not much to ask. Till then the first canonized President will do. President Saint Trump could then be the first if only he would listen to you.

Sometimes you all are incapable of thinking clearly.Sometimes people who think that are incapable of speaking coherently

A discussion of Trump and Palin is not a discussion of the qualifications or lack of them of any other candidate. It's just about Trump. Period.You'd like that, but this is not a purely hypothetical discussion. We are talking about an election, in which we have a limited field of choices. We cannot choose whom we would most like for president. I'd be a Santorum voter, but what's the point in that? So ruling out Trump by necessity involves choosing a different player.Again I ask, Who do you support?

Oh, and I wonder. Do you think Trump could explain the Gospel, without doing a google search? Cause without knowing and understanding the Gospel, Trump is by definition, NOT A CHRISTIAN.Which has exactly what to do with the Presidency? Frankly, the last President who could have qualified by that criterion was Jimmay Cartah. He was such a smashing success, we are all eager to repeat his presidency. And since it's quite likely you would disqualify my Christianity as well, I find no reason to accept your standard of judgement.

Oh, and I wonder. Do you think Trump could explain the Gospel, without doing a google search?

Cause without knowing and understanding the Gospel,Trump is by definition, NOT A CHRISTIAN.

Is there a secret Christian gang that I missed him not flashing? I thought the good news was simple enough for a child.

Most folks here have already nailed it; look at his fruits. Looks like he has a solid family to me. Somewhat disturbed by all the casino stuff. That is an easy business to get compromised in. His multiple wives do make him unfit to be a church leader. What else have you got to show as rotten fruit?

One can understand the folks that see Cruz as smarter and more wholesome, but it comes down to something like the civil war.

Burnside, Meade and Porter were more gentlemanly officers. But Grant was a fighter who won.

Like the Union the last 3 republican presidents have been gentlemen who would not fight to reverse the course we are on. Trump shows every sign of being a fighter. Yes he is a risk, but some pretty big names seem to feel he is worth that risk (such as todays endorsements)

Cruz may be an honorable man, but his record in the senate has been all losses. He has not won anything or moved anything in the right direction.

Like Grant, we need a fighter, else all is lost.

Cruz supporters must address that question: what makes you think he will be effective? before you answer is record as a lawyer, the skills that let him argue cases before the courts may not be the skills needed to win battles.

or why doesn't "a Christian first" simply nominate? Perhaps he was born in Kenya and has the same sense of entitlement as any Kenyan to stand? A quick name change and some expunged academic records, some photo shopped certificates and you could challenge them all.

But you'll need to be able to write a speech or two. How about "yes we still can". Give some hope to Detroit.

Thomas Howard goes for the "partial birth abortion" shot (actually a very good one). See, a Christian First this is how it is done.

Buuuut, they still aren't even withholding Communion for taking part in one. Let alone excommunicating anyone over the..."well I'm a New Yorker...and I understand someone from elsewhere might thing different" sort of opinion.

Hmm... Am I to understand that goalposts have been moved to accommodate evidence of Satan worship as our standard of concern? Are support for (even tacitly) infanticide and homosexual marriage no longer sufficient to call into question one's commitment to the gospels?

" I unfriended over 20 people. I don't miss seeing their posts or hearing their opinions, at all"Life is too short to waste it reading SJW crappery, JC.@ 50Yeah, a lot of people pay attention to Beck's website.You need a good smackin' on the nose with a rolled up newspaper and put outside.

Hmm... Am I to understand that goalposts have been moved to accommodate evidence of Satan worship as our standard of concern?

Perhaps I let my rhetorical flourishes get out of hand at 'Satan'.

Are support for (even tacitly) infanticide and homosexual marriage no longer sufficient to call into question one's commitment to the gospels?

Not even Cruz is suggesting banning it everywhere in the US; just devolving it to the states. Which is pretty much what Trump said as well. I didn't hear a full-throated push for Baal worship. He also predicated the whole thing with the fact he hadn't really thought about it.

There's a lot of folks out here in the hustings that will pay attention to her endorsement. I have to believe that it will play well in Iowa, certainly. And as obnoxious as the family drama is, for a lot of people, that just helps them to identify with her. Palin's endorsement still carries a lot of weight in White Working Class Christian circles.

A (pompous) Christian First:"A discussion of Trump and Palin is not a discussion of the qualifications or lack of them of any other candidate. It's just about Trump. Period. "

This is outright retarded. Political races don't happen in a vacuum. It always matters who a given candidate is running against. I will take a a fake Christian who loves his country and wants to preserve its traditional culture any day over a passionate Christian who wants to keep the borders open. Walsh has stated he doesn't mind Rubio either. Walsh does not grasp the big picture, though he certainly thinks he does. He does not think strategically over the long run. Take Walsh's most important issue as an example. You could ban abortion completely right now but keep the borders open and within a few short years the third world socialist crowd would completely reverse this victory. So much for electing the perfect Christian president.

Are support for (even tacitly) infanticide and homosexual marriage no longer sufficient to call into question one's commitment to the gospels?

This question does allow me to segue into my personal monomania; Planned Parenthood.

I want to start a not-for-profit organisation that sells the organs of all PP employees, supporters, and clients on the dark web. I have a mission statement: Bring together deserving organ donors with needy minority homeless.

Trump has said his favorite Supreme Court justice is Clarence Thomas and that he would seek to appoint judges are conservative, love the Constitution and are top legal scholars/minds. He's also criticized Cruz heavily for supporting Justice Roberts nomination. So what more could you ask for? Answer, nothing.

Trump is not pandering on ethanol. Trump wants jobs and energy independence as core aspects of his campaign and he sees the long established ethanol industry as contributing towards that, certainly in the short to medium term.

@16 Heh, I was briefly considering running for city council this spring get just to cause trouble... but since my answer would be "no, I don'the read or watch the lügenpresse, I talk to my neighbours" well...not quite sure they'really ready for me.

I'm not voting for an American Pope, I'm voting for a murder weapon against the traitors inside the gate - the GOP establishment. The game is rigged for the oligarchs, it's not very smart to keep voting in their pawns.

Never have so many smart people been so delusional about a candidate since - well I guess Obama. But at least Obama could win the general. Trump? Yuck. You guys were so easy to buy. What will you do if Hillary talks tough on immigration? How wilted the two liberal candidates of Clinton and Trimp apart.

Trump was a pro-abortion, gun controlling Democrat before he was a 'Republican.' He signed on to some moronic agreement to be 'bipartisan' if he won. He is apparently considering RINO Scott Brown for VP. Trump is a billionaire carnival barker. People should be careful. The show he is promoting, probably differs significantly from the actual show in the tent.

I know what his sister's views are and I know Trump knows. I also know that Trump has said repeatedly that he will appoint justices like Thomas who are conservative (like Thomas is conservative), brilliant and love the Constitution.

@159. Rusty FifeTrump is the guy who wrote 'The Art of the Deal.' What you are hearing is his negotiating stance. I liked it, too. But show Trump is promising may have little resemblance to the one actually in the tent.

VD: "Horseshit. They don't like him, but they own him. He's married and in debt to Goldman Sachs. He's a total non-starter."

And let's not forget; if you will not stand with the people of Israel, Ted Cruz will not stand with you. He has said so, himself.

Fine, let him go stand on the dais with the Zionists and Goldman-Sachs, and tell us that he is anti-establishment. I always thought he sounded like a used car salesman trying to sell a lemon; saying all the right things, but in a cadence that felt too well-rehearsed. The more I learn about him, the more I understand why.

Only one guy gets so but hurt from looking at facts that he buys in bulk. "Max Temkin, creator of Cards Against Humanity, just purchased $1200 worth of personal lubricant"http://www.thedailysheeple.com/wtf-man-spends-1200-to-send-55-gallon-drum-of-personal-lubricant-to-oregon-militia_012016

What was the Biblical position on corn subsidies again? That you should have 7 years worth, but Mormons have dropped down to just one year.

140 Falphil less policing? cops are our friends...Please tell me you are not that stupid.

Obviously fleeing die verse city ahead of the Nigapocalypse we moved to somewhere with Mayberry Style demographics and policing. I have never had problems with cops other than one who was an ex boyfriend of my boyfriend at the time. In fact for a while, I interacted with cops almost every day I worked in one inner city hospital. I can understand that they don't want to investigate victim class on victim class crime because they get crap from both classes.

@156 "Trump was a pro-abortion, gun controlling Democrat before he was a 'Republican.'"

What? Holy shit, why didn't someone tell us he was a Democrat!?!? Only thing worse would be secretly pretending you're not a Canadian for 40+ years then lying about taking large campaign loans while railing against the megabanks who gave you a million dollars all so you could win a Senate seat while pretending to be a Constitutional Originalist then introducing TPA legislation that cedes Senate authority to the President and staging a show vote against it once enough votes are secured to ensure it passes so the skids are greased for future 'trade deals' like the disastrous Iran and TPP ones that further erodes the middle class! But, damn, was he really a Democrat?

Or any of the other diseased psychopaths in the race. If Trump only crucifies half his enemies and selectively aborts half the Christian children in America while riding the Whore of Babylon through the Oval Office while broadcasting it on Nickelodeon...he will be the least damaging President since Cal Coolidge.

None of this Kabuki Theater matters in the slightest. The "Two Party System" is a complete fraud, trotted out every four years to mollify us unsuspecting rubes. There is really only one political party and it is the Washington Party. It makes not the slightest difference whether the Democrat wing or the Republican wing of the Washington Party "wins" in 2016. The same criminal cartel will remain in power.

This actually says more for Mrs. Palin than it does anything else. If it helps Trump, cool. For me it means she has more brass than I might have thought. Good on her, and him. No, I just mean I was never sure about her. Can't be sure about vaginas, I don't care which side they say they are on. Which is why they shouldn't vote or be candidates. Still, the world is what it is at this point, if I still disapprove.

Mormon is an attractive proposition, especially for former addicts. It is a powerful "brand" of community merged into a really cosmically orientated faith system. It shares some of the theological tenets of Christianity, but is not fundamentally compatible.

That said, it's really hard for SJW's and some conservatives to square the fact that in groups or even one on one, mormons are just about the most decent, kindest, and most stable people you may ever meet. I have met a lot of mormons, and so far as I can tell, none suffer from the SJW problems of vast obesity, vanity, or general mental ill health. I'm not sure if it's the rigorous faith, the persecution complex, the focus on wealth and success, or something else, but all in all, there are a few very unpleasant mormons. Person for person, a good group of people.

It really galls SJW's when they desperately want to be able to call a religious person a hypocrite, but I've seen them try and fail numerous times with devout mormons.

Mormons are non-Trinitarian Christians. They accept the existence of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost but understand the relationship differently than the way it is described or espoused in the Nicene or Athanasian creeds. Mormons accept the validity of the Bible as scripture but do not believe in the claims of sola scriptura in contrast to Protestants and do not accept Catholic/Orthodox claims to apostolic authority.

OK, mr. a christian first,Since you like answering a question, (that's a big no-no here )I'll ask you another: Why is trump ol' scratch ? Divorces ? Bidness ? And why is he different from say, San Glennie ?

Mormons also believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ and accept Him as Lord and Savior.

In words only. They believe Christ is a created being, sharing in the life of the Father, but not sharing in the essence or identity. It's not merely the "relationship between the Son and the Father" that they have wrong, but the question of Who Christ is.The do not know Who Christ is, and they are not Christian.

Hmm? Mormons, the ones I know, most definitely believe in the apostolic ascension, just not the one us Catholics abide. They hate it when I chide them for having a pope, just calling him a prophet, but that is as I see it. I have some very close friends in their community, and have allowed their missionaries in as often as they like. Though any who wish to visit are quite welcome, so long as they remain civil and come with good intent... even if they are wrong. :p Whether I agree with their faith, I do like that many of their kids get off their butts and go out to learn and teach and work. I'll feed em' when I can, they have helped me often, and others. Though that isn't just as it is. I would gift any youngling who gets off their duff and goes out like that. Yeah, they do believe in the apostolic ascension. The ones I know, and I know many.

Howzit an indication of how other women will vote? Far more likely: it'll turn off women who might otherwise have been ready to abandon the Dems. If blocking Muslim immigration isn't a sufficient motivation, what could Palin add?

Whiplash: No Mormon would disagree that their understanding of Christ differs from that of the one outlined in the Nicene and Athanasian creeds. But they view those creeds as evidence of the influence of Hellenistic philosophy on early Christianity and being out of conformity with the teachings of Christ and the apostles.

I would say a lot of it is also a big old "F-ck YOU!" to the news media that savaged her so cruelly to protect the pea-patch Kwizatch Haderach they loved. She's not nearly as stupid as they loved to portray her, and she knows that the media-scumvermin loathe Trump.

#188 Howzit an indication of how other women will vote? Far more likely: it'll turn off women who might otherwise have been ready to abandon the Dems. If blocking Muslim immigration isn't a sufficient motivation, what could Palin add?

Selling Trump to conservative women, who would otherwise stay home, or just not vote the presidential spot on the ballot.

I'm not one of them, because I owe my country a debt for helping to dump Clinton on them when I voted for Maury. But they exist, and Trump needs them, if he's not going to pull a Romney in the election.

Yeah, I have Mormons on my mom's side and they're all these really stable, well-adjusted, reliable, decent people... with a theology that I think is totally effed up. But I can't hold it against them since they're so damn nice.

Mosby, I agree, and I don't take it personally. Mormon inside baseball is not a big secret so it is not a surprise that you are familiar with it. Jesus Christ is the one who decides who is accepted or not, as you say, I was merely using that phrase as a shorthand to point out that Mormons believe that salvation is available only through Jesus.